[Tutor] Counting & Sorting Instances In File

[Michael Barrett]

    I realized (since I've gotten one reply already that pointed it out) that I'm not too clear on just which part of this I need help with.  I know how to open the file, grab the data, and then parse it out.  I also thought about storing the counts as a dictionary, ie using the addresses as the keys with the 'counts' being the values.

    The hard (?) part is the sorting.  Thats the part I need help with, so assume a dictionary of 'Email': count values.  If you can think of a better way of storing the data in memory for my sort, that'd be appreciated as well.  Thanks again.

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:47:09PM -0700, Michael Barrett wrote:
>     Ok, so, I'm not sure why this is giving me such a hard time right now (maybe it's lack of sleep, don't you love those weeks?) but pretty much I'm looking for a good way to go through a logfile of outgoing mail attempts and count the # of mails going to each mail address- and then sort that list so that I can display the top 25.  Anyone got any suggestions?  This is making me feel like a total idjit.
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>     Thanks for your help.
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                Mike Barrett | "I used to read, now I go to raves."
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